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Banned in its home country of Pakistan, JOYLAND explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society.

Gentle and timid, Haider lives with his wife, his father, and his elder brother, pregnant sister-in-law, and their three daughters in Lahore, Pakistan. As the family eagerly anticipates the birth of a baby boy to continue their family line, Haider secretly takes a job as a background dancer at an erotic theatre, where he is drawn to the strong-willed trans woman, Biba, who runs the show. Soon, Haider and Biba fall into a secret summer romance, which opens his eyes and ultimately his worldview, in ways unexpected, intimate, and heartbreaking.

Writer-director Saim Sadiq calls JOYLAND an “homage to all the women, men, and trans people who pay the human cost of patriarchy. It is also a celebration of the desire that creates unlikely bonds and the love that immortalizes them.”

“It’s bone-chilling, it’s heartbreaking, it’s cruel, it’s innocent and above all, it’s easy on the eyes and hard on your nerves; a symphony not a sermon about the lives of the ordinary.”

Rafay Mahmood, The Express Tribune